Ghulam Abid, Sadia Shaikh, Muhammad Farhan Asif, Natasha Saman Elah, Aizza Anwar & Tahira Hassan Butt
Given the complexity of employee attitudes toward work, organizations continue to devote their attention to work related attitudes, especially employee job satisfaction. The present study draws on Conservation of Resource Theory (COR) to highlight that the effect of Perceived Organizational Support (POS) on job satisfaction depends on thriving at work. The study also proposes that proactive personality moderates the positive relationship between POS and thriving at work This study tested on a sample of 936 Pakistani employees over a two-waves (T1 and T2), over a period of one month. We were able to find support for the existence of a positive relationship between POS and job satisfaction and thriving at work mediates the above relationship. The results also established that the positive influence of POS on job satisfaction through thriving at work increase as proactivity reduce in the employees. The practical implication of the study proposes that organizations should provide employees with a supportive work to improve their job satisfaction.